Means for making stone-faced brick.



PATENTED JAN. 2 1907;.

W.-LAMMERSEN.

" MEANS FOR MAKINGETONE FAGED BRICK.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 23, 1906 s Plflll w, vlnnlunrou, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT-OFFICE.

WILLIAM LAMMERSEN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

MEANS FOR MAKING STONE-FACED BRICK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

Application filed February 23, 1906. Serial No. 302.398.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILL AM LAMMERSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Means for Making Stone-Faced Brick, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide simple and convenient means for producing a substitute for pressed brick without expensive machinery or special kilns and wherever ordinary burnt brick and Portland cement or the like are available.

This invention is designed for carrying on the process and producing the product set forth in my companion application, Serial No. 302,397, filed on the 23d day of February, 1906.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a mold constructed in accordance with my invention, two bricks being secured in the same. Fig. 2 is a section of the same on line 00 90 Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on line 00 00 I Fig. 2, showing the mold in position in a form which holds a brick in position in the mold. Fig. 4is a view of the mold inverted after the cement-mortar has been applied to the bricks. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 4, showing the brick and the artificialstone facing thereon. Fig. 6 is a plan of the mold shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section of the device adapted for making stretcher-bricks, the same being provided with a strap, which takes the place of one wall of the form shown in Fig. 3.

1 is a frame adapted to receive a brick or like body 2.

3 4 designate means mounted on the frame 1 to engage the brick or body 2 and hold it in a determined position therein. An edge 5 of the frame is open to receive plastic material for application to said body 2. The sides 6 of the frame are adapted to give form to the edges of the plastic material when applied to the body 2. Said body-holding means 3 4 comprise points or pins 3 in the form of set screws and spring-handles 4, which handles are fastened to the frame 1 by hinges 4 and are guided by guides or rods 7, having nuts or heads 8 to serve as stops for the handles. The guides or rods pass through slots 9 in the handles and are fastened to braces 10, that strengthen the frame.

11 isa link for holding the handles 4 toward each other and temporarily fastening them together, the same being hinged to one handle at 12' and hooking over the end 13 of the other handle.

14 designates the form, and 15 16 blocks or cleats thereon to appropriately position the bricks or bodies 2 in the mold.

14" designates a strap fastened to frame 1 and serving as a substitute for the form 14 .in cases where the mold is to be used for bricks 2 in position in the form resting against the blocks 15 16, as shown in Fig. 3, and will then place the mold-frame 1 in position on the bricks, as shown in Fig. 2. He will then draw the handles 4 toward each other, thus causing the points 3 to engage the bodies 2, which will force said bodies against the middle partition 17 and hold them firmly in the proper position in the mold, whereupon the workman will invert the mold to the position shown in Fig. 4 and will apply cement-mortarto form the facing on the bricks. After smoothing the same the plastic surface of the bricks may be dipped into crushed natu' ral stone, and then the bricks can be set on a smooth plate (not shown) and the link 11 released, whereupon the handles 4 spring apart, thus withdrawing the points 3 from the brick, and thereby releasing the same, whereupon the moldis ready for further use.

What I claim is 1. A frame adapted to receive a brick or like body, means mounted on the frame to engage said body and hold it in determined position therein; an edge of said frame being open to receive plastic material for application to said body, the sides of said frame being adapted to give form to the edges of the 3. A frame provided with a longitudinal V In testimony whereof I have hereunto set partition and with an opening at an edge and my hand, at Los Angeles, California, this 15th provided with openings in its sides, handles day of February, 1906.

fastened to the frame and provided with ad- WILLIAM LAMMERSEN. 5 j ustable points projecting through said open- In presence ofings, and means for fastening said handles JAMES R. TOWNSEND,

together. JULIA TOWNSEND 

